GCI Health

We are GCI Health, one of the world’s largest
specialist health and medical communications
agencies with global hubs in London and New York. We create communications and education solutions that place patients at the heart of
programming – whoever the audience and whatever the challenge. Our talented
team delivers the commitment, passion and entrepreneurial spirit of a
specialist agency while providing our client partners access to a genuine and
active global network.

In the UK we have a mission to redefine health and medical communications, starting from the inside out. We
aim to make our people the happiest and most inspired the industry has to
offer, knowing our business potential has no limit if we stay true to this
philosophy.

Our unrelenting commitment to people development, the perfect pairing of expertise and creativity, continuous inspiration seeking and exceeding client expectations at every step provides us an ambition impossible to beat.

We love what
we do – and our clients know it. We pride ourselves on being able to tackle
just about any communications challenge, big or small, as a full service
healthcare communications agency built on four key pillars:
Life Sciences

Creative programmes
that activate patients, consumers and their influencers to effect
behaviour change

Market
Access Communications

Initiatives that communicate
the value proposition of a brand to support broader access strategies

Strategic
consulting

Counsel on
optimising the performance of in-house communications teams, at a country
or regional level, e.g. analysing ways of working, roles and responsibilities,
team structure and behaviours to help drive efficiencies

GCI Health's Hannah Morris considers the importance of strategic communications planning for biosimilar entry, a market anticipated to deliver between €8-26bn in savings across the
European Union by 2020.

Rikki Jones considers the role of communications in defining and telling a product’s value story.
The article in Pharmaceutical Marketing Europe discusses the need for functions to better join forces early in the access continuum in the interest of defining and delivering value that is going to withstand stakeholder scrutiny, and not just from pricing and regulatory decision makers, especially given the particularly heavy spotlight on price that some therapy areas have endured this year.

“GCI Health London
continuously thrives on and delivers against the challenges that global programming
can present. The team is very much an extension of our own, a trusted position
they have rightly earned. Strategically they work to help navigate an ever
changing landscape, never resting on their laurels to be a team that just ‘does
the do’, they are with us every step of way. I have huge praise for their
enthusiastic solutions-based approach, which was key to our 2013 success –
including the delivery of one program in particular that is hailed as our
company’s most successful patient targeted campaign to date, involving
implementation oversight across 20 countries. I’m truly thankful for what my
collaboration with GCI Health has delivered, for which they should feel very
proud.”Global communications lead

“GCI Health is a strategically minded and enthusiastic partner who has worked
alongside our European business, supporting a number of high-level projects and
issues. GCI Health is hands-on when it comes to implementing strategy and
supporting our affiliates. Together we have achieved a great number of critical
objectives, many of them focused on the delivery of new treatments to patients.
We continue to be strong partners working towards equally important goals.
The team has proven themselves to be accommodating, nimble and a pleasure
to work with. Their forward-looking approach is commendable and very
appreciated – they are deserving of every success.”European communications lead

“We selected GCI Health as our agency partner as we were impressed by their
offer that combines the personalised service of a small agency with the impact
and professionalism more commonly found in larger organisations.
Historically, we had an ad-hoc approach to communications and within a matter
of weeks of agreeing a programme with GCI Health, we had a presence across all
social media platforms, a schedule of content to put the organisation at the
forefront of the key issues in the management of respiratory disease, and
executive committee agreement on a business strategy, vision and mission to
present to our sponsors. We found the GCIH team to be dynamic, motivated and
engaged, a pleasure to work with. That we experienced increased visibility
across the media and our enhanced profile amongst our sponsors in such a short
time is a testimony to the GCI Health’s team passion and drive.”UK professional society chair

Beyond our own global healthcare network, WPP’s vast
collection of agencies allows us to tap into other specialty expertise and
knowledge that complements ours, to offer fully integrated solutions for our
clients. And we share office space with a number of them!